Here are a few of my highlights from Cape Town 2010, I could write loads on this, but here’s six to get me started: I belong to a global church To sit in a room with over 4,000 church leaders from nearly 200 countries teaches you quickly about the global church. In my small [...]
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Highlights from Cape Town 2010
Posted in Church, Lausanne / Cape Town 2010, Ministry, Personal, Theology on October 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Cape Town 2010: Closing Ceremony
Posted in Lausanne / Cape Town 2010 on October 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The excitement is rising, we’re doing a new musical settign of the Kenyan Service of Holy Communion. Order of service is 31 pages! Music and prayer was due to start at 6.45pm, it’s 7.08pm and nothing yet. And we’re started! A quick update on surveys: 348 organisations have committed to reach out to oral learners! [...]
Cape Town 2010: UK Delegation meeting
Posted in Lausanne / Cape Town 2010 on October 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Welcomed to the meeting by Martin Lee (Head of English selection team and Global Connections) who highlighted we would: Meet together and feedback Talk though what we’re hoping to do post-Lausanne, both in terms of feeding back to the nations, and action that we might start. We then had a moment of prayer. Graham Archer [...]
Cape Town 2010: There are no unreached children
Posted in Children's and Youth Work, Church, Lausanne / Cape Town 2010, Theology on October 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This was a very participative multiplex so my notes aren’t as detailed as normal and I can’t make my numbering work properly in wordpress, apologies! We started with a wide ranging paper about children. In conclusion three points are clear: Family is critical Churches and Christian organizations are there to develop children and young people, [...]
Cape Town 2010: Partnering in the body of Christ towards a new global equilibrium
Posted in Church, Lausanne / Cape Town 2010, Theology on October 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
We started with a video on mission and partnership with some moving testimonies. David Ruiz Latin America is open to the work of God. It has turned the world upside down. The mission from the West is finished, welcome to the mission of the world from everywhere to everywhere. Growing up in Guatemala less than [...]
Cape Town 2010: Table Group goodbye
Posted in Art/Images/Photos, Lausanne / Cape Town 2010 on October 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This morning we said goodbye to Alexis one of our team as he travels back to the Honduras. Left to right: Greg (USA), Alexis (Honduras), Cynthia (Canada), Daniel (Serbia), me (UK)
Cape Town 2010: Ephesians 6
Posted in Church, Lausanne / Cape Town 2010, Theology on October 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This morning we’ll try live blogging Ramez and Rebecca Atallah on Ephesians 6:10-24. Internet has been a bit inconsistent so apologies if it drops out, and as usual apologies for spelling etc. Worship starts with As we pray. Now reading the whole of Ephesians! The theme is “therefore stand …” so we’re going to pray [...]
Cape Town 2010: A lack of corporate prayer?
Posted in Lausanne / Cape Town 2010 on October 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
One of the comments I’ve heard a number of times is that there has been a lack of prayer actually at Cape Town 2010. In one sense I agree, even last night where prayer was to be a major component we spent so much time listening to main stage presenters lead us in prayer; we [...]
Cape Town 2010: Day 5 Evening
Posted in Church, Lausanne / Cape Town 2010, Theology on October 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
And we’re back for tonight’s session which focuses on our personal stand before God: responding to God in worship and prayer; and Eurasia and Western World. As normal with live blogging there’ll be spelling mistakes etc., thank you for your grace. After a time of worship, including orchestra and organ, we’ve been reminded that tonight [...]
Cape Town 2010: Global Participation
Posted in Lausanne / Cape Town 2010 on October 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a privilege to be here in Cape Town at the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelisation. Hopefully many of you will have found my blog posting helpful to keep you in the picture of what’s going on over here, but if you’d like to know more try some of the following: Online participants can [...]

